Monthly Archives: July 2010

Pre-SDCC news roundup

Kate Dacey has some summer reading suggestions in her latest Good Manga for Kids column. Here’s the full press release on the three new series that Seven Seas announced yesterday: As predicted by ANN, they are ToraDora, Amnesia Labyrinth, and … Continue reading

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More new manga, and farewell to Yen Plus

The sleuths at ANN think they have figured out the third Seven Seas license: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun), by Motoi Fuyukawa. The Manga Village team looks over the past week’s new releases and makes their picks. … Continue reading

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Seven Seas drops a few hints

New title guessing game: Seven Seas has three new titles to announce, and they are doing it in an unorthodox way: As puzzles via Twitter. Yesterday’s clues were “Anagram: ‘Toad Roar’” and “Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of … Continue reading

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Quibbles and bits

Sean Gaffney takes an advance look at next week’s new manga. Melinda Beasi, Danielle Leigh, and Michelle Smith continue their roundtable, The Nana Project, with a look at vols. 11 and 12 at Manga Bookshelf. Jason Thompson’s latest House of … Continue reading

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Notes and notions

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber picks the manga she’d like to read from this month’s new releases. Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss lots of new manga in this week’s Off the Shelf feature at Manga Bookshelf. Translators Alethea and Athena Nibley take … Continue reading

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Musings and conversations

At The Eastern Edge, Gottsu-Iiyan presents part 2 of his translation of a joint interview with Takehiko Inoue and Eiichiro Oda, accompanied by illustrations from the latest chapter of Vagabond, which makes for a very sweet package. Kate Dacey wouldn’t … Continue reading

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